Nbgrader Hackathon/Code Sprint
Scotland; James Slack (University of Edinburgh); james.slack@ed.ac.uk

The University of Edinburgh will be hosting a three-day community event focused using Jupyter notebooks within teaching. The core aspect of this event will be a Hackathon focused on adding improvements, fixes and extra documentation for the nbgrader extension. Alongside this, there is a plan to run introductory open workshops for using Jupyter in teaching, targeting local communities with some exposure to Jupyter as well as those new to Jupyter. Our key aim will be to improve the existing features within nbgrader. This will allow the existing Jupyter user community and new users to adopt and use this as an assessment tool alongside Jupyter notebooks. By enthusing our existing local Jupyter users to be more involved with the wider community and inviting new users to join, we will be increasing the diversity of opinion and experience within the Jupyter user community.

Taken from: https://blog.jupyter.org/jupyter-community-workshops-a7f1dca1735e

There will be occasions when you are looking to facilitate a particular workflow not currently supported by learning technology central services. Sometimes, workarounds need to be found. However, there may be occasions when, working with our colleagues in Information Services, we can build something which does achieve the desired aim.

In my time as learning technologist for Edinburgh College of Art, I worked with IS Apps colleagues to build a building block for Learn which vastly improved the experience of students accessing learning outcome level grades and feedback via Learn. You can read about the project here.

If you have an idea as to how you can improve current workflows – for academic colleagues, support colleagues, or students – please get in touch to discuss further.

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